Rosette Club 12 String
An acoustic icon with a signature sparkle and shimmer, adding a full, rich tone to any track.
US$159
Hear Rosette Club 12 String In Action
- Playing for Time Acoustic Alchemy (arr. Andrew Aversa)
- Menrin's Autumn Abel Vegas
- Edelweiss Richard Rodgers (arr. Andrew Aversa)
- Picking Up the Pieces Steven Cravis
- Homestead Michael Hoffmann
- Tragic Love Inon Zur (arr. Tremendouz)
- Into the Wilderness Michiko Naruke (arr. Fredrik Häthén)
- Bourrée in E minor Bach (arr. Kent Kercher)
- Light a Candle Andreas Wimmer
- Feelings Out Michael H. Lee
- Homestead (Guitar Only) Michael Hoffmann
- Feelings Out (Guitar Only) Michael H Lee
- Tragic Love (Guitar Only) Inon Zur (arr. Tremendouz)
Reviews
Simon Franglen
Titanic, Skyfall, Spectre, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water
Impact Soundworks make detailed, emotive instruments. I’ve happily bought over two dozen of their libraries which should say everything. They get used every day.
Mark Portmann
Ariana Grande, Luis Fonsi, Celine Dion, Quincy Jones
"[ISW]'s instruments consistently deliver the sound, feel, and reliability I need to do my best work. Thank you for raising the bar and making tools that inspire."
Neal Acree
World of WarCraft, Diablo III, StarCraft II, Overwatch
"Impact Soundworks has some of the most creative and innovative libraries out there. From world instruments to the insanely deep sampled Shreddage guitar series the Impact catalog is full of must-haves and unexpected and inspiring surprises. Highly recommended!
Stewart Winter
Co-founder, VideoHelper
"I'm a keyboard player -- I can't even make a REAL guitar sound convincing. But Telos and Rosette are my go-to guitars because they sound incredible, sit well in a mix and are so easy to configure to my personal playing habits. I'm constantly discovering new ways to play them and they've saved my ass more times than I can count. And the pedal Steel is still my favorite library of its kind for Country, Folk and organic layering behind synths."
Brian Pickett
PAW Patrol, Lucas the Spider, Daniel Tiger
"I never would have thought that sampled guitars could sound as good as ISW's do. The fact that I can use them to lay down a realistic solo is unprecedented. They’ve pushed the boundaries of realism."
Rosette Mandolin – Sound on Sound
Rosette Mandolin review
"The sound of the library is very pleasing...the more I used the library the more I felt I was learning how to write idiomatically for the instrument." "Rosette Mandolin provides a good sound that could have many applications, with versatile input options that cater to writing realistic mandolin lines, impossible 5+ note chords and everything in between." Thomas Field, September 2024
Richard Jacques
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Mass Effect, Overwatch 2, James Bond 007: Blood Stone
"I'm a huge fan of the Ventus Winds series. They feature rare instruments deep-sampled to an incredibly high level of detail. It's so liberating to have such a wide range of articulations & phrases that perfectly capture the nuances and performance style of these instruments... from beautiful to haunting, celebratory to sorrowful. Each is expertly recorded and the sound quality is superb, sitting in the mix with ease. If you want to add authentic world winds to your palette, then look no further."
Kevin Manthei
Angry Birds Mystery Island, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Villainous, Neverwinter, Star Trek Online
"ISW creates some of the most inspiring & realistic guitar sample libraries. I had to write a bunch of really gritty, angry heavy metal & sports action rock cues. I used Shreddage 3 Serpent for leads and was blown away by its onboard processing, programming, and amazing live-sounding leads. I also created a signature sound based on the lead guitar in David Lynch's Twin Peaks series, originally played on baritone guitar. [Serpent] built a convincing replica of that sound just using on-board FX. It was so fun and easy to do!"
Audio Demos
- Playing for Time Acoustic Alchemy (arr. Andrew Aversa)
- Menrin's Autumn Abel Vegas
- Edelweiss Richard Rodgers (arr. Andrew Aversa)
- Picking Up the Pieces Steven Cravis
- Homestead Michael Hoffmann
- Tragic Love Inon Zur (arr. Tremendouz)
- Into the Wilderness Michiko Naruke (arr. Fredrik Häthén)
- Bourrée in E minor Bach (arr. Kent Kercher)
- Light a Candle Andreas Wimmer
- Feelings Out Michael H. Lee
- Homestead (Guitar Only) Michael Hoffmann
- Feelings Out (Guitar Only) Michael H Lee
- Tragic Love (Guitar Only) Inon Zur (arr. Tremendouz)
Overview
One of the most iconic guitars in all of modern music, with an unmistakable chorus tone that shimmers out with every note. The lush, bright sound is brought out even further by its natural acoustic ‘compression’ which helps it feel even tighter in a mix. There’s a reason why the acoustic 12-string has defined the intros, hooks, and signature riffs of hundreds of classic songs from Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd to Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. Use it as a solo lead or to enrich a rhythm track. Reach for Rosette Club 12 String whenever you’re writing rock, pop, country, folk, or anything that needs a truly great guitar.
Product Info
15,000+ immaculate 24-bit samples
Recorded with a stereo pair for width and brightness, plus a single vintage mic to capture the body. Blend the two positions to your own taste.
Unique 12-string sound
Wide, resonant, and rich with harmonics, with a fullness that can’t be replicated by doubling 6-string guitars.
All crucial articulations
Sustains, mutes, tremolo, harmonics, hammer-on/pull-off, slides, chokes, pitched & unpitched releases, and assorted percussion. Also includes distinctive slide-up and slide-down articulations.
Realistic performances through meticulous sampling
Every string sampled up to the highest fret, with up to 8x RR and 5 dynamic layers. Recorded using a custom structure to ensure perfect consistency.
24 bespoke presets
Carefully-curated presets to instantly recreate classic sounds from the instrument’s history, plus practical workhorse snapshots and inspiring but unusual sounds.
Features
Next-generation virtual guitar engine
Beautiful, wide UI
Poly input feature for realistic chords
Total articulation control technology
Console FX rack and mixer
Requirements
8GB disk space
7200 RPM hard drive or solid state drive recommended.
6GB of RAM
Higher amounts of memory let you load more instruments.
Kontakt Player 7.6+
This instrument will run in the FREE Kontakt Player.
Kontakt Requirements - Mac OS
Intel Macs (i5 or higher): macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11 or 12+.
Apple Silicon Macs (via Rosetta 2 & natively on ARM in Standalone or in hosts that support it): macOS 11 or 12+.
Kontakt Requirements - Windows
Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit). Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU. Graphics hardware support for OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Windows 10 strongly recommended.
Tutorials
Instrument Walkthrough
Featured Artists & Composers
Lena Raine
Celeste, Chicory, Minecraft, Guild Wars 2, Deltarune
Instruments from ISW are a staple of my soundtrack work for games. Vocalisa has been a mainstay vocal aesthetic of nearly every game I’ve worked on including Celeste & Chicory: A Colorful Tale. Shreddage 3 has also given me the confidence to write some really fun guitar riffs & solos despite not being able to play a real one. I’ve started incorporating Tokyo Scoring Strings into the acoustic side of my scoring work, and can’t wait to try out more from ISW in the future!
Matthew Carl Earl
Overwatch 2, Rainbow Six Siege, Call of Duty Mobile, PUBG Mobile, Arknights
“Impact Soundworks creates easy-to-use, great-sounding virtual instruments right out of the box. Highland Harps, Emotional Mallets, and Shreddage 3 are in my daily toolkit.”
Jimmy Hinson
Black Ops 4, Mass Effect 2, There Came An Echo, Borderlands 2
“Between Shreddage, Super Audio Cart, Juggernaut, and Mega Brass I don’t remember the last time I haven’t used an Impact Soundworks instrument in a track. The attention to detail is astonishing and it’s all so easy to use out of the box, which is a big deal.”
For decades, the acoustic 12-string has been the secret sauce holding some of your favorite songs together. Ever since George Harrison used it to open “A Hard Day’s Night” for The Beatles, it’s been inescapable.
You’ve heard it in the legendary intro to “Hotel California.” It takes center stage in “Free Falling,” “More Than a Feeling,” and “Stairway to Heaven.” It strums and shimmers throughout Woodstock psychedelia, harder classic rock, and pop songs alike, classic metal tracks from Led Zeppelin to Mastodon to Metallica, and modern hits by Lorde, Phoebe Bridgers, and Sabrina Carpenter. It’s also a staple of Americana and country music, where it’s used to add shimmer and body. For celtic and folk music, it’s a natural fit anywhere you’d use a mandolin, especially a deeper bass/baritone mandolin.
When we say this guitar is versatile, we mean it. With such a strong and varied pedigree, Rosette Club 12 String was the obvious choice to round out our Rosette series.
The acoustic 12-string is a unique guitar where each primary string is paired with a second string that’s tuned to the same note but a higher pitch. This results in a bright, wide, strikingly powerful sound that functions like a natural chorus effect, rich with harmonics in a way that no amount of studio doubling with a six-string could match. It has a particularly powerful attack, especially in heavy play that takes full advantage of the body’s resonance.
For Rosette Club 12 String, we sampled a Guild F212 guitar built in 1973. It’s a gorgeous vintage instrument in excellent condition with a blocky, resonant body.
We called on a working professional who we knew would have the attention to detail that such an essential instrument would require. He rigged a contraption in his LA studio to ensure consistent sound on every note across nearly 100 hours of recording. With his microphone stands bolted into position and a special cutout to make sure he sat in the exact same spot every time, he attained a seemingly-impossible level of recording consistency. His guitar is an LA legend that has seen a lot of session work, and now Rosette Club 12 String is part of its legacy.
The Rosette line is built on the Shreddage 3.5 engine, expanded for the needs of an acoustic guitar to emulate the way experienced guitarists adjust their performance to hone in on a particular sound, choosing certain fret positions or strings to bring out specific colors or timbres. If you’re already familiar with the Shreddage series, you can dive right into Rosette.
We put extra care into making Rosette Club 12 String feel naturally expressive. In addition to mutes, hammer-ons, pull-offs, noises, and harmonics, it also includes the slide-up and slide-down articulations that are necessary for authentic 12-string performance. A generous number of round robins and articulations give you a deeply-sampled, beautifully fine-tuneable guitar.
Rosette Club 12 String is also the first library to include a new feature called Workstation Fun. Built by a keyboardist for keyboardists, it’s designed for you to play with natural keyboard expressiveness, which the engine then translates automatically into a more expressive guitar performance. Play as many notes as you’d like, regardless of realism; it will still sound natural and lifelike, picking the right articulations based on the velocity of your performance.
Console is our mixer, modular effects rack, and pedal board, designed to give you full control over your virtual guitar tone. Unlike our previous FX racks, which were limited to a small amount of preset modules, Console gives you 30 effects modules to choose from!
These include multiple EQs (digital and analog-style), compressors, spatial FX, modulation FX, amps, distortion pedals, reverbs, and a selection of over 30 custom cabinet IRs! These cabs cover all the most important sounds you would want, with both dynamic & condenser mics in multiple positions plus a ribbon mic for certain models.
Using Console, you can easily save and load FX chains or presets between projects or even different Console-enabled products. It also allows you to mix and blend between mic signals, with custom inserts on each if you’d like.
Download the Console manual here to learn more!
Reviews
Rosette Fingerstyle – Future Music
“…the key to getting a realistic performance with Rosette is understanding the interface and making use of the many features available…Certainly, Rosette Fingerstyle is more than capable of excellent results – and the Taylor has been nicely captured – but to make the most of this instrument a little more work is required by the user.” (7.8/10)
Bruce Aisher (Future Music – February 2023)